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two larvtc on Whitethorn, near Monkswood in Hunts in 1872, but 
it has so often been turned out, that there is no great reason to 
suppose them relics of the wild race, which seems to have vanished 
from Huntingdonshire twenty years, and from Norfolk ten years, 
before that date. 
In connection with this species I may draw attention to one 
very closely allied to it, the Satin Moth ( L . salicis). In 1869 
I found this insect in the utmost profusion around the small house 
on Whitesley, then occupied by Harmer, a keeper and fen-man in 
the employ of the late Colonel Duff, and well known in the fens. 
The graphic description of L. dispar, as given by Curtis, and 
quoted in Mr. Barrett’s list, would have applied word for word, 
save as to the food-plant, which in this case was Willow. This 
species kept up its numbers at Whitesley for some years, and is 
still distributed over our fens, but only in small numbers, and 
I strongly suspect it to be dying out in the locality. 
The third species, Phibalapten/x polygrammata, occurs in 
Austria, Switzerland, France, and in fact over a great part of 
central Europe, though it should bo mentioned that Mr. Doubleday 
considered our insect as distinct from the continental form. In 
our own country it was not among the species taken at Whittlesea 
Mere, but was contined to the districts of Burwcll and Wicken. 
Mr. Brown informed me that he used to take it abundantly, flying 
in the afternoon, both at the former locality, now long since 
drained, and also between that spot and Wicken, but never in 
Wicken itself. I am assured, however, that Mr. Bond records it 
from the latter locality ; but it certainly never turned up there 
during my acquaintance with the Fen, and must, I fear, be looked 
upon as wholly a thing of the past. It should be mentioned that 
this insect has several times been recorded in error, owing to the 
mistake in the first edition of Newman's ‘ British Moths,’ where 
the names of this species and the next are transposed. 
The fourth species is Noctua subrosea. This appears to be a 
northern form, probably belonging to au early race, as it seems 
confined to one or two distant localities, and to be far from 
plentiful there. Staudinger records it from Finland and Livonia, 
